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To: jim black who wrote (31830)	4/18/2003 4:27:15 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 74559

Hi Jim - The difference of $14 to $66 is not all due to out of control trial litigation, but a big piece of it is- easily 10-20 bucks worth or more. The uncertainty and worry produced by the possiblity of futre trials also makes ROI hurdles and prices go higher - in effect, today's prices are paying for tommorow's possible litagation. Trial settelments last year were about >6% of the total profits of the S&P 500. I have trial lawyers in my family. Much of the rest of the price is good old greed, which will produce profits which generally tend to get taxed. There will also be some litagation exposure for the intermediaries, like the pharmacy, drug wholesaler, etc. and they will need to cover their insurance. A non-drug example - Go to a bicycle store and look at he price of a cheap styrofoam bicycle helment. Compare to he cost of a cheap styrofoam cooler at a drugstore or supermarket. Most of the huge price difference is litagation costs.

To: jim black who wrote (31830)	4/18/2003 10:47:03 PM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74559

Market segmentation - higher price in the country with the less elastic demand. Americans apparently consider these drugs are more essential than Canadians do and hence the price here is higher. Well that is one explanation :) Good Friday = God Friday? As in Goodbye = "God be with ye"

To: jim black who wrote (31830)	4/19/2003 1:12:18 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

I had 8 malarias attacks, doc. Palcifarum Vivax. My interest in malaria was more than academic. If I would go to the US I would let you take some blood samples and let your friends epidemiologists have a lookt at it 12 years after. Being a school dropout and supicious of any profession. ALL PROFESSIONS ARE A CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE LAY MEN Can't recall the author of the quote. The medical profession is Nr. 01 in the list of conspiracy against lay men. (I am not anit-anything I am just saying that any citizen had better do his home work.) I always to try to educate myself and asked my German doctor. Why someone can't make a vacine against malaria. He said, the protozoa, changes very fast as it goes from infected person, to vector (the mosquito) and then inside the human being. So drs, can't have a quiet taregt seating down there toi aim and fired and kill it. Them always work with some sort of vacine that works for a certain stage. not for all of them. But when you state a different case for not fidning a vacine, I am already suspecting there are very difrent views on how this thing is not possible. Now I am even more suspicious. You know I always look to the money on the table. The more money on the table, the more people will fight for it. My idea is to attack the fucking mosquitoes with DDT which is how I made my pest control on my house in Kafuna, Nigeria. I suspect DDT is so good at killl pestilence, that people would be much more interested in having the pestilence around (to sell anti-petilence stuff) and then they created a scare against DDT. You rememebr 'Silent Spring' and all that. I don't care about the professionals say. I do what I think is right. Hey chocolate, salt, sugar, coffe, meat is not good for you today, tommorrow a new study say they are actually good. So I am always waiting for the other shoe to drop.